By JASON HALL Published August 10, 2009 Sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus to solve problems is the foundation of Collaboration. Arguably the most popular structured method for collaboration today is Microsoft® Office SharePoint®. Incorporate that with the rapid progress of SmartPhone capabilities over fast 3G networks and you op ...[Read More]

Waking up this Monday morning, there is tons of information on SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview from Microsoft.  More then its' typical for pre-beta.  With the initial information that is coming out of the technical preview of SharePoint 2010, I have a strong belief that this version of SharePoint, will be its finest.  Sure there are huge improve ...[Read More]

The more you use SharePoint, the more potential you see. I know because I’ve been working with it for years. You see past simple collaboration. You see workflow, document routing and approval features. You envision drastic improvements to efficiency.But as your vision take shape and your needs get more sophisticated you begin to realize that yo ...[Read More]

It wasn't no April Fool's joke - SharePoint Designer 2007 is now FREE! With the success of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, SharePoint Designer 2007 had become a tool that we all loved to hate. Now you have the ability to download, install and run SharePoint Designer 2007 for FREE within your organization or local SharePoint install. Recommen ...[Read More]

Recently, a collegue and I were helping a client enable Forms Based Authentication.  He sent out an email on how you lose client integration functionality when you have Forms Based Authentication enabled. SharePoint Buzz Twitter Community is GreatI tweeted earlier today that I was working on a draft version of this post and the SharePoint Twitte ...[Read More]

The latest feature announcement for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (next iteratative version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007) will include FAST Search for SharePoint.  FAST Search for SharePoint, a new search server that will add the high-end search capabilities of FAST ESP to SharePoint. FAST Search for SharePoint will be availab ...[Read More]

Just in case Microsoft's recent release of SharePoint Dispose Checker Tool has been keeping you busy squashing SharePoint memory leak bugs, we thought we'd also chime in with the SharePoint Team's post announcing the SharePoint 14 Conference! This conference is for you if you are an IT Professional, an IT Decision Maker, an Architect or a Develope ...[Read More]

Here are the latest videos (hosted on Microsoft Videos site) from TechNet: Planning and Deploying SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) - In this first session of our six-part Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 series, see a detailed overview of the SharePoint Server 2007 architecture. We present the concepts of topology, server roles, and n ...[Read More]

Welcome to a new offering from TechNet! Webcast ExpressWebcast express are webcasts that are 10 to 15 minutes long. They do not require registration, just click, sit back and watch. There are even links to download the sessions! We covered technologies centered on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 and Office 2007. Tune in and learn more about ins ...[Read More]

It is possible to manually change the SharePoint Timer Service account: From a command prompt change to the directory where the SharePoint Timer Service is running C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN Run the command stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -identitytype configurableid -userlogin domain\account - ...[Read More]